Birds Nested Alongside Dinosaurs in the Arctic: Fossil Find Pushes Polar Nesting Record Back by 25 Million Years

Study finds birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs - Alaska Native News

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the cover of this week’s edition of the journal Science. The paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting […]

Birds Nested Alongside Dinosaurs in Alaska 73 Million Years Ago

Learn more about the earliest evidence of birds breeding and nesting in the Arctic, a behavior that millions of birds continue to this day.

Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions.

First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the Arctic circle

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought

Birds have been nesting in the Arctic Circle for almost 73 million years, newly discovered fossils reveal

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds learned to either adapt to the harsh Arctic winter, or migrate south during the Mesozoic — the age of dinosaurs.

Birds nested alongside dinosaurs in the Arctic: Fossil find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.